ISTD: Books Still?

An ISTD competition brief based on exploring contemporary publication design. The context is drugs, aiming to educate the audience about illegal substances pitching this against facts and figures about legal drugs. This will be transfer to a range of products and merchandise that will help publicise the content and advertise the print solution to drug myths and stigmas.

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Icons
For visuals of each drug bright colours are used to catagorise them into: Hallucinogenic, Stimulant, Depressant and Unknown. Icons were designed created on the experience the user has after taking that particular substance.

Hallucinogenic

Stimulant

Depressant

Unknown

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The A-Z of Drugs

As a informative book certain elements of it are important: molecules, risks and slang words. The layout is simple and easy to navigate, and to help the whole book is in alphabetical order. The typeface Karla is used as a comtemporay sans serif, appealing to a younger audience.

Weed, Skunk, Sensi, Resin, Puff, Pot, Marijuana, Herb, Hashish, Hash, Grass, Ganja, Draw, Dope, Bud, Bhang.

Cannabis
Depressant Class B
Cannabis is the most widely-used illegal drug in Britain, although the numbers of people using it are falling. The main active chemical in it is tetrahydrocannabinol. THC can also make you hallucinate, meaning that it can alter your senses, so that you might see, hear or feel things in a different way to normal.

RISKS
Cannabis has some real, and harmful effects on your mind and body: . Taking cannabis can make people feel chilled out, relaxed and happy. . It can make you more aware of your senses, and the hallucinogenic effects can even give you a feeling of time slowing down. . It makes you getting the munchies. . Make you feel anxious and paranoid. . After continuous use Cannabis has also been linked, in some people, to serious, long-term mental health problems. . Smoking cannabis has been linked to lung diseases like tuberculosis.

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The A-Z of Drugs

A selection of photographs of spreads from the publication.

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